A car bomb in Washington, D.C., murdered a diplomat and his colleague, yet the Carter administration spent months debating whether military ties outweighed the cost of state-sponsored terror.
By Theo Marchetti ·
Held in the White House Cabinet Room on February 4, 1969, a meeting over Berlin access remained missing from formal minutes until Alexander Haig's handwritten notes surfaced.
By Roy Castellano ·
A secret 1970 memo marked "Sensitive" details a plot to manipulate Chilean elections and stir fear of communism, while officials admitted the gambit could spark widespread violence.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Marked "Secret; Sensitive," a 1974 memo shows US officials prioritized the appearance of non-involvement over the stability of Peru's reformist government.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Civilians in Cambodia and South Vietnam paid with their lives while aides managed the exposure of intelligence abuses and African crises through records that omit the most damning specifics.
By Desmond Okafor ·
American soldiers died in a war managed by an Ad Hoc Group while the NSC used clinical redactions to hide illegal spying and foreign assassinations.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Victims of a 1941 Jewish pogrom were ignored as an NSC staffer dismissed a suspected fascist bishop's broadcast as "silly," sparking a congressional demand to oust him from the White House.
By Constance Bell ·
U.S. officials risked being in a real box if they observed a voluntary moratorium while the Soviets engaged in clandestine nuclear testing, Robert Komer warned.
By Eleanor Voss ·
Boris Yeltsin and the Kremlin were kept in the dark about a private US 'hedge' while the Clinton administration publicly framed NATO expansion as an inclusive partnership.
By Roy Castellano ·
State Department and CIA officials integrated overt and covert psychological warfare, censorship, and domestic information to ensure a rapid transition to wartime operations.
By Theo Marchetti ·
Foreign populations were slated for manipulation by a centralized engine of influence designed after Washington admitted it had no funds or experts to conduct such operations.
By Marcus Boone ·
Target populations had their thoughts and behaviors shaped by a secret alliance of the CIA and Defense Department, while specific tactics and failures stay locked in archival files.
By Marcus Boone ·
Covert paramilitary operations and support for juntas are driven by a private pipeline of authority that shields the president's actual instructions from public debate.
By Desmond Okafor ·